The team had returned to the normal training. In the four days before going to Russia, the team only did physical fitness training to reduce the small bellies that a lot of players developed over the holidays and to restore their physical skills so that their bodies could keep up with the intense training and pace of games.
The team was currently incomplete, so there was no need for a joint practice.
There was one matter that had to be done before the departure for Russia and that was the transfer issue of Anelka.
